An elite Canberra girls' school has slapped a ban on its students from using mobile phones during school hours in a bid to beat the cyber-bullies.
Canberra Girls' Grammar in Deakin joined Dickson's Daramalan College in its hardline stance introduced at the beginning of the year.
Under the ''use it and lose it'' rule for phone handsets, any girl at the $16,000-a-year Anglican school found using a phone during teaching hours will have the device confiscated and not returned without a letter from her parents.
Girls at the school's boarding house face even tougher restrictions with phones collected at 8pm every night and not returned until 8am the following morning.
Head of the Senior School Bruce Handley said the policy reduced the risk of phones being used for bullying or harassment by SMS or voice calls during the school day.
''It's really a way of cutting back on the opportunity for cyber-bullying,'' Mr Handley said.
''It means that you've got the opportunity to minimise it during the school day because the students don't have the opportunity to use the phones.''
For more on this story, see the print edition of today's Canberra Times.
Source: The Canberra Times
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